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Deference Quotes

The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.

The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.

Feelings, Deference

"The Mencius". 2A:6, as translated by Wing-tsit Chan in "A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy", p. 65, 1963.

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

William Shenstone

Compliment, Indirect, Deference

William Shenstone (1764). “The Works, in Verse and Prose”, p.254

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

Nicolas Chamfort

Merit, Deference, Esteem

People who expect deference resent mere civility.

People, Civility, Deference

You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

Advice, Affair, Deference

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

William Shenstone

Silence, Gains, Deference

William Shenstone (1764). “The Works, in Verse and Prose”, p.52

Deference and intimacy live far apart.

Intimacy, Deference, Wooing

You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.

Thinking, Disgusted, Deference

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.333

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